Guitar music.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Musical compositions specifically composed or arranged for guitar, regardless of the notation in which they are recorded.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Book of dance tunes chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern., [Circa 1765.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5449
Scope and Contents
Also included are some tunes for the keyboard (folios 38-44 verso). The pieces consist, along with some Scots tunes, of minuets, gavottes, marches, etc., by composers of the day including Thomas Arne, Arcangelo Corelli, William Felton, George Frideric Handel and Johann Adolph Hasse.
Dates:
[Circa 1765.]
Microfilm of Scottish music, [1838]; and, dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.389
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Volume of Scottish music, [1838], comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc. (MS.2086);
Book of dance tunes, [circa 1765], chiefly arranged for the English guitar or the cittern (MS.5449).
Dates:
[Circa 1765, 1838.]
Music book of John Thompson Smith containing dance and song tunes for the German flute, 1810, and at the back, for the Spanish guitar, 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.21754
Scope and Contents
Some music has been written in a later (possibly a child's) hand at folio 20.
Leaves have been torn out before folios 13, 22, 23, 26, and 28, and folios 13-19, 21-28 are blank.
Dates:
1810, 1826.